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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 02:01:52 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygcheck ... >/dev/clipboard doesn't work
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:48:38PM +1100, Jason C. Johnston wrote:
>A google toolbar search of the email archives hasn't turned up an answer
>to this, so just for information (the workaround is obvious):
>
>Like the subject line says, redirecting the output of cygcheck to
>/dev/clipboard doesn't change the contents of the clipboard, whereas
>doing it in two steps - redirecting cygcheck's output to a file, then
>cat'ing the file with redirection to /dev/clipboard, does work.

/dev/clipboard is a cygwin construction.  cygcheck.exe is not a cygwin program,
so it can't really output anything to it.

It's unfortunate, but that's how it works.

cgf

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